There is a specific frustration that includes finding ants marching purposefully across a kitchen bench at six in the morning, and for Canberra homeowners, this experience is far from uncommon. The capital's varied urban landscape, with its carefully maintained parks, established suburban gardens

Ants are among the most successful organisms on the planet, and nowhere is their flexibility more evident than in a city like Canberra, where the combination of unique seasonal temperature variation, extensive green spaces, and the warmth created by domestic and business buildings produces an env